March 6, 2019
I am a biological anthropologist who specializes in bioarchaeology, human skeletal biology, paleopathology, and stable isotope science. My primary area of investigation is Andean South America, where I engage in contextually-based research focusing on the analysis of ancient skeletal and mummified remains, in order to explore broader anthropological interests including: the biocultural identification of violence […]
March 6, 2019
Dr. Matejowsky is a professor who specializes in cultural anthropology and food studies. He received his Ph.D. in 2001 from Texas A&M University and joined the UCF faculty in 2002. His research interests include fast food, economic anthropology, globalization, urbanization, popular culture, disaster studies. Dr. Matejowsky currently conducts his research in the Philippines and U.S. […]
March 6, 2019
A cultural and medical anthropologist, Dr. Reyes-Foster’s (she/her/ella) research examines the intersections of health, medicine, and society in a variety of different settings and regions, particularly the ways in which these intersections reproduce health disparities and social inequality. Her research foci include mental health, reproduction, coloniality, and gender. Her first book, Psychiatric Encounters, explores the […]
March 6, 2019
Brigitte Kovacevich received her BA from the University of Arizona and PhD from Vanderbilt University in 2006. Before coming to University of Central Florida as Assistant Professor in 2015, she taught at Southern Methodist University, Yale University, and the University of Virginia. She was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor at UCF in 2018. Dr. […]
March 6, 2019
Dr. Groff is a senior lecturer of anthropology who specializes in archaeology and bioarchaeology. Dr. Groff received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Florida in 2015. Her primary area of research utilizes stable isotopes to determine migration and social mobility of ancient individuals. Since 2002, Dr. Groff has participated in many archaeological investigations, […]
March 6, 2019
Dr. Shana Harris is a cultural and medical anthropologist specializing in drug use, “addiction,” and health politics and practice in Latin America and the United States. She received her Ph.D. in medical anthropology jointly from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco in 2012. She was a National Institutes of […]
March 6, 2019
Dr. Geiger is an senior lecturer in anthropology specializing in cultural anthropology. Dr. Geiger teaches Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, Peoples of the World, Magic, Ritual and Belief, Sex Gender and Culture, Environmental Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Peoples of Southeast Asia, Southeast Indians, High Plains Indians, Ethnography of North American Indians, History of Anthropological Thought, and Biological […]
March 6, 2019
Neil Duncan is an archaeologist specializing in paleoethnobotany. He received his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Duncan served as a Fulbright Research Specialist in Ecuador and was a postdoctoral scholar at the Archaeology Center at Stanford University. Dr. Duncan’s research focuses on the interrelationships of humans and plants in prehistory using micro-remain […]
March 6, 2019
Dr. Branting is an archaeologist with specializations in the ancient Middle East and geospatial science and has worked on archaeological projects around the world. He holds advanced degrees in archaeology and geography from the University at Buffalo and the University of Chicago. For ten years he served as the Director of the Center for Middle […]
March 6, 2019
Dr. Callaghan is an anthropological archaeologist who studies Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican societies to understand the origins of social complexity. Dr. Callaghan specializes in the study of the ancient Maya with an emphasis on ceramic analysis. His research on ceramics informs the study of how technology and production contribute to changes in social structure. Dr. Callaghan graduated […]
